(http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~eddieh/images/covers/ARiverRunsThroughItAndOtherStories.jpg)
"A masterpiece. . . . This is more than stunning fiction: It is a lyric record of a time and a life, shining with Maclean's special gift for calling the reader's attention to arts of all kinds—the arts that work in nature, in personality, in social intercourse, in fly-fishing."—Kenneth M. Pierce, Village Voice
(http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo3643831.html)
Something inside me refused to show a fish in this quilt. After all, this story tells us a lot about fishing.... But then I started to read this wonderful novel again and I realized that my feeling was right:
It's true what is said in the review above, this book is about art and skillfullness, and fishing just stands for so much more.
Some of my favourite sentences are:
"As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician, but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God's rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty....
To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy."
For my quilt, which has a very simple design ( I largely profited from a beautiful silk piece I "accidentally" found in a little shop), I chose a sentence which talked to my emotions in a specific way: "Power comes not from power everywhere, but from knowing where to put it on."
There is this beautiful movie "A River Runs Through It", directed by Robert Redford, and this trailer summarizes the plot of the story, combined with wonderful pictures of Montana:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z7yeXtBQMU&NR=1
